He Ran for “The
Prize of the Upward Call” and Won!
On July 30, 1974, at the age of 86, Thomas James Sullivan
finished his earthly course. He was born on May 14, 1888, in County Kerry,
Ireland. In March 1916 he was baptized, and in 1924 he and his wife Evelyn
entered full-time service in the Brooklyn Bethel. His intimate friends
affectionately called him “Bud,” and as the Superintendent of Evangelists he
was in charge of the Watchtower Society’s Service Department for many years. In
this capacity he regularly visited his Christian brothers who were imprisoned
in the United States because of their neutrality during World War II and
thereafter. On October 31, 1932, he was made a member of the board of directors
of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania; he was also one of
the eleven-member governing body of Jehovah’s witnesses. When he died at
Watchtower Farm, where he had lived for the past eleven months, he was able to
say, as did the apostle Paul, “I have fought the fine fight, I have run the
course to the finish, I have observed the faith.”—2 Tim. 4:7; Phil. 3:14.
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